Clarion 1949-06-03 Vol 28 No 14

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Top: V. Henry Peterson, Charles C. Germany, George Johnson; Center: Vernon S. Olson, Roy Clinton Dal-ton,
Harold L. Christenson; Bottom: Vernon David Anderson, Robert T. Sandin, David Emmett Tutt.
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Vol. XXVIII—No. 14
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota Friday, June 3, 1949
Seventy-seven Graduate Tonight
ROY CLINTON DALTON, Presi-dent,
Seat Pleasant, Md. MAJOR:
History; MINOR: Literature; FU-TURE
PLANS: Teaching; NEXT
YEAR'S PLANS: Univ. of Minn.
Graduate School ; Is. 26:3 "Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on thee, be-cause
he trusteth in thee."
CHARLES C. GERMANY, Vice-president,
Chicago, Ill. MAJOR:
Philosophy; MINOR S: History,
Psychology, FUTURE PL A N S:
Ministry; NEXT YEAR'S PLANS:
,Southern Baptist Seminary, Louis-ville,
Ky. Phil. 3:14 "I press toward
the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus."
GEORGE JOHNSON, Secretary,
Rockford, Ill. MAJOR: English;
MINOR: History; FUTURE
PLANS: Missions; NEXT YEAR'S
PLANS: Univ. of Minn. Ps. 32:8
"I will instruct thee and teach thee
in the way which thou shalt go ; I
will guide thee with mine eye."
V. HENRY PETERSON, Treas-urer,
Eilendale, Mich. MAJOR
History: MINOR S: Philosophy,
Literature; FUTURE PLAN S:
Ministry; NEXT YEAR'S PLANS:
Southern Baptist Seminary, 1,0111:3-
-vine, Ky. Ps. 11:10 "The fear of'
the Lord is the beginning of wis-dom:
a good understanding have
all they that do his command-ments;
his praise endureth for
ever."
ROBERT T. SANDIN, Carney,
Mich. MAJOR: Philosophy; MIN-OR:
History; FUTURE PLANS:
Ministry ; NEXT YEAR'S PLANS:
Univ. of Minn. Graduate School;
Gal. 6:14 "But God - forbid that I
should glory, save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
DAVID EMMETT T U T T, St.
Paul, Minn. M A J 0 R: History;
M I N 0 R: Psychology-Philosophy ;
FUTURE PLANS: Missions;
NEXT YEAR'S PLANS: Bethel
Seminary; Phil. 3:10 "That I may
know Him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship
of his sufferings, being made con-formable
unto his death."
HAROLD L. CHRISTENSON,
Muskegon, Mich. MAJOR: H:stoi•y,
M I N 0 Psychology ; FUTU
PLAN S: Ministry or missions;
NEXT YEAR'S PLANS: Bethel
Seminary; Ps. 91:2 "I will say of
the Lord, He is my refuge and my
fortress; my God; in Him will I
trust."
VERNON S. OLSON, Sioux
Falls, S. Dak. MAJOR: History;
MINOR: English-Political Science;
FUTURE PLANS: Ministry;
NEXT YEAR'S PLANS: Bethel
Seminary; John 3:30 . "He must in-crease,
but I must decrease."
VERNON DAVID ANDERSON,
?viidale, Sash, Canada, MAJOR:-
History, Philosophy; FU T U R E
PLANS: Missions; NEXT YEAR'S
PLANS: Missionary to Alaska:
Gal. 2:20 "I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless 'T live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me.
Senior. College Campus Heads
To Be Expanded Are Elected ft631[KOZ
One of the greatest events in Bethel's history will occur tonight
when President Wingblade will present diplomas to almost eighty gradu-ates
at the St. Paul auditorium, theater section at 8:00 p.m.
The commencement speaker will
be Dr. Robert Smith, professor of
philosophy at Dubuque university.
He received his Doctor of Theology
Expansion of the upper division
curriculum is planned for. the
school year 1949-'50. Upper divis-ion
work is being planned for the
fields of sociology, sieech, and re-ligious
education.
In connection with the offerings
of the Sociology Department, the
dean's office announces the ap-pointment
of Mr. David Moberg, an
alumnus of the school, who during
several years past has been doing
graduate work and teaching at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
The work in religious education
will be handled by Miss Esther
Sabel, who returns to the campus
after a year's leave of absence,
having studied at Southwestern
Baptist Seminary.
Mr. Clifford Larson, a doctoral
candidate at the University of
Southern California, has also been
appointed to the Department of Re-ligious
Education. An addition has
been made to the library staff with
the appointment of Rev. David
Guston of New York, who will take
charge of the cataloging depart-ment
of the library.
An additional appointment in the
field of speech is still pending.
Walton Johnson
Seminary Scholar
Walton G. Johnson of Superior,
Wis. brought the valedictory ad-dress
of the seminary this morning
on the theme "A good minister of
Jesus Christ." Emphasizing the
sense in which each Christian is
exhorted to aim at and to attain to
this goal in his own life, he took as
his text I TinI 4:6.
Walton, an ex-serviceman and
graduate of Superior State College,
is the treasurer of the Senior class
and a student pastor at Kelsey,
Minn. During his three years at
Bethel, he has served on the Stud-ent
Council, the Men's Dorm Coun-cil
and the Devotional Committee.
Future plans, though still in-definite,
center around the minis-try
or the mission field.
The new heads of the various
activities follows: Bob Daley, Stu-dent
Council; Gil Anderson, Relig-ious
Council; Bruce Herrstrom,
Clarion.; John Balian, Spire; Ben -
net Asplund, Lads; Jane Johnson,
Lassies; Wally Berke, Lords;
Marianne Ostrom, Ladies; Fay
Seaquist, BWA; Perry Hedberg,
PDG.
Jim Rentz, Men's Dorm Council;
Dorothy J o h n s o n, Girl's Dorm
Council;- Wanda Schrupp, Girls
Chorus; Len Anderson, Swedish
Club; Harvey Swanberg, German
Club; Robert Muska, Spanish Club.
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After nearly giving up hope
of getting the Spire out on time
this year, the editor received
, welcome word last week that
the printer was exerting special
efforts to get the book out by
class day. This meant quite a
bit of driving on the part of
some of the staff members,
over 400 miles to be exact, but
the desired end was obtained-
04/%1NOSIMIKMOMMIMIIVNINP,MINIMNIONT5)
Ed Clay Speaks
For Jr. College
Scheduled to be listed in Who's
Who in the Northwest this coming
year, Edward Arthur Clay was the
valedictorian of the sophomore
class. Already a graduate of North-western
Bible School, Mr. Clay has
been doing both college and semin-ary
work at Bethel the last four
years, with a view toward going
into Christian teaching.
He has been in the ministry for
sometime and is at present serv-ing
a church in Cambridge, Minn.
His home and family are in
Stanchfield.
In "Pressing on to the mark,"
Mr. Clay brought out that there
are always goals to be achieved;
under God we have the will to
achieve them; and willingness to
endure is necessary in order to
achieve goals..
Senior Class
The senior class began the policy
of an annual skip day, as several
other policies, in top style.
On the afternoon of Tuesday,
May 17, they left the campus in
two cars and with a box of food,
not knowing where they were go-ing—
except north.
After having dinner in Duluth
they proceeded up the North Shore
to Twin points where they spent
the night—mostly in riot.
Next morning Vern Anderson
and Chris (the two married men)
acted as cooks while President Dal-ton
closely observed. After break-fast
of fruit juce, fried eggs, bacon,
rolls and toast, coffee, etc., the
group went further north.
Returning south they made sev-eral
stops at points of interest (and
for ice cream for Dalton), , arriving
back at Bethel about five o'clock.
The event was completed by a
stag party at the home of the class
advisor, Gene Johnson on Wednes-day
evening.
Outing Climaxes Year
With the All-School Picnic held
yesterday at Taylor Falls, the
social program of the year came to
a close. The beautiful St. Croix
River formed a perfect backdrop
for the days many activities. Or-ganized
games and just roaming
around made for an enjoyable time
for all.
The devotional part of the outing
came in the evening, when Wally
Peterson led the vesper service.
Leonard Carroll brought the main
message at this time.
Valedictorian
The college senior class valedic-torian,
Roy Clinton Dalton, has
been much in the news this year.
He is president of the Senior class
and also the presiding officer of
the Arconians, the winning col-legiate
society in this year's com-petition.
Roy's address, based on Prov.
23:7, "As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he," was developed
along the three points of thought
in general, thought and conversa-tion
and thought and action.
Just recently engaged, Roy and
Vi Laven have set the date for
their wedding as Aug. 26th, in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Dorm Reservation
Policy Changed
Upper division students better
make the best possible use of their
dorm priority opportunities for the
school year 1949-'50. The Board has
recently voted that effective for
the school year 1950-'51 the priori-ties
will be held by the freshmen
and the sophomores.
The Board's action Is in line with
the practice of most schools in
favoring the needs of younger stud-ents.
Off-campus provisions will be
arranged for upper division stud-ents
who can not be lodged on the
campus.
degree from the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary in Louisville,
Ky.
He is an outstanding speaker,
especially among youth. His topic
will be "In this our day."
The first senior class will be
graduated from the college, taking
with them nine Bachelor of Arts
degrees. There will also be given
fifty-one Associate of Arts degrees,
and two Associate of Religious
Education degrees from the col-lege.
There will be fourteen Bachelor
of Divinity and four Bachelor of
Theology degrees from the semin-ary.
Three persons are candidates
for two diplomas each, thus mak-ing
a total of seventy-seven candid-ates
for graduation.
Holds Skip Day Dalton, Senior
Page 2 THE CLARION Friday, June 3, 1949
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By President Wingblade
CON
Federal aid to education is not
the answer to bettering our educa
tional system for two reasons.
First, because federal control of
funds would eventually entail con-trol
of policy.
This arrangement would permit
the possibility of a despotic bur-eaucrat
to dictate educational poli-cies
inimical to our concepts of
democracy.
Secondly, a consequence of cen-tralization
of authority on educa-tional
matters would be to deprive
the citizenery in the localities of
the interest in their school.
Nicholas Murray Butler, late
president of Columbia university
has stated that the school, as well
as the home and church, is inex-tricably
interwoven into the fabric
of society, and therefore, to taken
control of it from the citizens
would be a grave error.
Consolidation of school districts,
institution of governmental eco-nomies,
and the development of a
greater sense of responsibility by
citizens for more equal educational
opportunities is the direction of
action necessary to better our ed-ucational
system.
—John Balian
It is the hope of the Clarion staff that these pages have given you
a wide-angle view of Bethel's school days and the challenges presented
to you as you sojourned here.
Looking over our year in print, the word "deadline" is one to which
we attach mingled sentiments. Behind the scenes we have witnessed
the ever-present last minute rush,
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Editor-In-Chief Robert Hamlett
Assistant Editor & News Editor ....
Charles Germany
Feature Editor Audrey Weldon
Sport Editor Roger Hedberg
Business Manager .. James Rehnberg
Circulation Manager .. Avis Johnson
Reporters: V. Hanson, L. Hendrick-son,
J. Hubbard, Ray Johnson, W.
Lindroth, D. Osterberg, G. Platt, R.
Forsman, J. Balian, D. Brown, M.
Lindstedt, Gene Tupper, Pauline
Pearson, Kurt Janke, M. Sheffler.
Feature Writers: B. Anderson, H.
Bondeson, M. Engstrom, P. Hed-berg,
M. Kortum.
Typists: M. Thompson, Chief; B.
Lindberg, L. Safstrom, V. Larson,
L. Mellbom, J. Widen, Jerry Hasel-blad,
Carol Peterson.
Photographer Harry Palley
Faculty Advisor . V. Elving Anderson
Issued bi-weekly during the school
year except vacations.
Subscription price $1.00 per year
the search for unwritten stories,
and with the advent of spring, the
gradual disappearance of our typ-ists
under the mysterious influence
of spring fever.
Stretching its budget beyond the
limit, the Clarion has given you
fourteen editions with the help of
Student Council funds. But when
the results are all totaled, we can
still say that this has been a great
year.
To our new editor, Bruce Herr-strom,
God's guidance as you take
over the reins of Bethel's paper.
May the Clarion ever grow with
the school the Lord has so richly
blessed. -
-Robert Hamlett,
Editor, 1948-49
PRO
Federal aid is nothing new. Since
before the adoption of our federal
constitution the national gc vern-ment
has given material aid i n the
thrill of larid grants to furthe the
development of our education: sys-tem.
At present federal funds arc be-ing
expended for hot lunch pro-grams
in schools.
A compelling reason for int :eas-ed
federal aid is that states with
larger proportion of school age
children tend to have less than
average financial ability to support'.
their schools.
Mississippi with 281 children for
each 1,000 adults in 1946 had an
income of -$575 per capita. Nevada,
with 181 children per 1,000 adults
had a per capita income of $1,770.
According to the National Educa-tion
Association the more than one
million men rejected by selective
service for educational deficiencies
are attributable to inequalities of
educational opportunities to in-equalities
of educational oppor-tunities.
Federal aid is necessary and de-sirable.
Meditation
As followers of Christ we must
take a true stand for all the teach-ings
of Christ, not only for what
He taught us to believe, but also
for what He taught us to do.
Standing for Christ means stand-ing
with Him, walking with Him,
every day and everywhere, making
Him known to those around us.
To do this we must some times
openly oppose those who deny
Christ whether by false teachings
or 'by shameful living. How is it
done? By "building up yourselves
on your most holy faith," by bold
confession before men, by mutual
exhortation, by suffering for the
truth.
Thus we must "keep the faith"
for our own salvation and comfort,
and we must keep it pure for those
who are following that they too
may live.
—Prof. Swan A. Engwall
DENNIS CARLSON expects to go
to Alaska for some fishing and
also to earn some money.
MARIE SCHULTZ is going to
stay in the dorm this summer. Be-sides
working, she is going to try
to keep HELEN FRANKLIN from
getting lonesome. DON (RED)
SHELDON hopes to do some loaf-ing
besides working and acting as
camp counseller. He'll be around
home all summer and will welcome
any visitors, girls. ROY BORGE-SON
is going to spend his time
trying to learn how to win friends
and influence professors.
Home in Omaha, BUD WAAGE
has a full schedule for the sum-mer.
He's going., to be working,
helping with Bible School and has
some plans for helping to entertain
folks when the convention meets
down there. JONAS HAMMER will
be helping with the farm work
during the day time back home
but is not sure just how he'll spend
his evenings.
DAN NORDGREN will be found
either umpiring ball games or rest-ing
on Phalen beach here in St.
Paul.
There are two things and only two
That cause the potter's "nay,"
A clumsy hand upon the form,
An unresponsive clay.
Our Lord the Perfect Potter is
And Him we cannot blame;
If faulty vessels are produced,
To us must come the shame.
—Baptist Standard
Since this is the last cup of
coffee we'll be sharing together for
a few months, let's just do a little
reminiscing. Remember-
—when we freshmen thought we
weren't being typical college stud-ents
unless we stayed up talking
until the wee hours of the morn-ing?
---the personal invitations a lot
of us received to bathtub parties?
—the struggles with our first
term paper?
- the day we moved the books
into the new library?
—the excitement of Bethel's first
"rush day?"
—the thrills of the chorus trips?
—how the girls dorm flooded
with talk of the coming Sadie Haw-kins
day party, and the familiar
phrase--"but what if he won't go?"
—the fun of playing hosts to
prospective students?
—the long treks over to Mac for
basketball games?
—the scramble for the shelter
of the closets at the approaching
footsteps of the dorm moniter?
—Mantzke's rendition of Jack
and Jill? How can we forget!
—the Homecoro,ing game and the
"determination" of the football
team?
Yes, we could go on and mention
other activities of the year at
Bethel. You can't say on ink and
paper what this year at Bethel has
meant to each of us—spiritually
we have grown, mentally we have
developed and physically we hay(
benefited.
Summing Up
The Blessings
Spiritually speaking, 'Bethelites
will chalk up this year at Bethel
as the most outstanding one in re-cent
times.
A backward glance proves that
Dr. J. E. Orr, whose stirring mes-sages
wrought conviction of sin in
many hearts and were instrumen-tal
in kindling revival fires in the
lives of students and faculty alike,
did not by mere accident stand be-hind
the chapel pulpit that Monday
in April and prayerfully begin his
week of meetings.
The Welsh evangelist faced stud-ents
whose hearts had been under-going,
at God's hands, a unique
preparation for the Word he
preached.
Behind that bright Thursday
when so many students met God
in a new, vital way, stood hours
of earnest prayer in months past.
In January God drew the attention
of many students to chapters 6,
7 and 8 of Romans. Prayer-lives
took on new meaning and the per-iod
of heart-searching began.
Founder's Week brought Drs.
Adams, Ramm and Byus on the
scene, emphasizing the magnifice-nce
of God's Word. Rev. Clyde
Taylor's "You can't be a mission-ary
over there if you won't be a
missionary here" wrote Missionary
Emphasis Week in red letters on
the Bethel calendar%
When Queen Victoria asked
Cecil Rhodes what he was doing in
Africa, he replied, "Building an-other
empire for your majesty."
And when he lay dying he bemoan-ed
the fact that "so little was done
—so much to do."
Tennyson sang of "following
knowledge like a sinking star to
the u t most bounds of human
thought." And Brown i n g held
strongly that "a man's reach
should exceed his grasp—or what's
a heaven for?"
And the greatest of men and the
wisest of men who have gone the
farthest in study and research have
found themselves like little 'child-ren
in the valley of humiliation or
like those gathering pebbles on a
limitless shore.
Dr. Len Broughton of the south-land
was visiting with Thomas
Edison; and, thinking it an oppor-tune
time to learn something, he
asked that great genius what elec-tricity
was. With a twinkle in his
eye Thomas Edison asked Dr.
Broughten if he would promise not
to tell. Upon Dr. Broughton's ac-quiesing,
the wizard of electricity
replied: "We don't know anything
about it."
But there are those who know or
think they do. I was riding on a
fast train between New York and
Bridgeport, and beside me sat a
man from the U. S. Treasury De-partment.
I had just been taken
through the mammoth battleship
North Carolina, and had been tre-mendously
impressed — especially
by the radar in the captain's quar-ters.
When I referred to this in
conversation as being wonderful,
my friend from the Treasury De-partment
replied, "Why no, that
is not wonderful." Then he proce-eded
to tell me exactly how it
worked.
Well, that was fine, but I recall
how John Ruskin lamented the
passing of the sense of wonder in
the hearts of people today. They
know all about the phenomena of
_nature now—or they think they do.
But William Wordsworth sings
sadly of his own loss:
"The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose:
The moon doth with delight
Look down when the heavens are
bare;
The stars on frosty nights
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunlight is a glorious birth—
But this I know wherever I go
That there has passed away a
glory from the earth.
But not so, I believe, for the
true child of God. He stands with
amazement, with the. Psalmist,
contemplating the glory of God's
handiwork, and he praises Him
for the mystic wonder of redemp-tion.
The child-like spirit is ever
present. And indeed the greatest
of the great are those "who hum-ble
themselves like this child."
And so at this commencement
season we are looking ahead. We
are still in "the glory of the un-finished."
May we say with Paul,
"I press toward the mark"; and
may we say with Columbus, at
each eventide (in his log book),
"This day we sailed on" — until
the foliage and flowers of a new
shore, shall greet our ken and the
day star arise in our hearts.
May you all have a wonderful
summer—basking in the sunshine
of His love.
Dr. Clarence Nelson of Minneha-ha
Academy followed on his heels
with a Deeper Life Week used of
God to produce a Spiritual thought-fulness
that ripened under Dr.
Orr's ministry into conviction of
sin and simple, but powerful, revi-val.'
Chapel Quotes
"Prayer is the golden river at
whose brink some die of thirst
while others stoop to drink."
—H. Wyman Malmsten
* * *
"It isn't far from the deepest pit
to the highest height if God is with
us."
—President Wingblade
"If we are to realize the promise
of things above, we will have to
put first things first. We will seek
a prayer life—one which carries
us beyond the mere mechanisms of
repeating the Lord's Prayer. ....
—Lloyd Sprecker
This Year's Days of Significance
Prepare Us For Victorious Future
A year ago Dr. Koller spoke to us on "This is the day the Lord
hath made . . ." Tonight Dr. Smith will speak to us on "In this out
day." Our days at Bethel have been varied in activity, but each with
its significant meaning in our lives. We are well aware that we cannot
always live in the days of Orr, Havner, and Byus, for "rear-view living"
is not victorious living.
Politics
Aid to Education
Intellects Reflect
The last issue of the Clarion and with the end of school near, the
current inquiry is, what are you going to do this summer? One can find
about as many different answers as there are people.
DOTTIE JOHNSON and MARIE ANN NELSON are among the many
kids that are going to be teaching Daily Vacation Bible School. Others
are LUCLIE REIK, PAUL DANIELSON, EILEEN SATHER, and DAVE
TUTT to name just a few of them.
FRANK DOTEN is planning on a fishing trip up in northern Minne-sota
and possible Canada before leaving for home. DOROTHY J.
NELSON is going to be church missionary for a church in Escanaba,
Michigan, and FLORENCE NORDSTROM is planning to help with Bible
School work in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Acting as nurse at a summer camp is one of the jobs DELORES
MACKEY has besides teaching Bible School in Bay City, Michigan.
Earnestly Contend
To Christ's followers has been delivered the "faith," i.e. the Oracles
of God—the history, doctrines, precepts of the Church of Christ. This
"faith" represents truths so important for the salvation of man that
Satan wants to destroy their value.
To you and me this is a challenge to responsibility and stewardship.
It is a trustee's duty to keep the deposit intact, to protect it against
corruption and robbery and to hand it on to others unimpaired.
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Friday, June 3, 1949 THE CLARION Page 3
Indians End Season With 9 Wins, 1 Loss
Lads and Lassies Win
Field Events 165-146
A crowd that averaged over 300 watched Bethel students participate
in the first annual Field Day events held on Edwards Field, Thursday,
May 19th. The gala event featured competition in almost every field that
could be witnessed in any major track meet. Competition consisted
of both boys and girls and took the form of rivallry between the Collegi-ate
Societies, the Lords and the Ladies against the Lads and Lassies.
When all the scores were tallied, there was no question that the
Lads and Lassies were victorious over their rivals by a combined score
of 165-146. The Lords won over the Lads, 104-81, and the Lassies over-came
the Ladies, 84-42, which indicates that the Lassies share the great-est
amount of credit for the victors.
High scorers in the Men's Divis-ion
were Roy Johnson and Ronald
Skoog who scored 25 and 24 points
respectively, Bud Dunn, scoring 18
points, C. Anderson 17, Bob Fry-kenberg
14, Bob Daley 13, and Fen
Swanson 12.
Lassie Marilyn Kortum totaled
the highest number of points for
the day by being a victor in al-most
all of the women's events,
netting 48 points.
Other high s c or e r s for the
Womens Division were M. J. Daley,
scoring 23 points, Ruth Erbst 13,
Florence Nordstrom 8, B. Cooper
8, and M. Holm 7.
The following is a list of the 1st
place winners in the various
events.
50 yd. M. Kortum :7.2 Lassie
Event Winners Time Team
Dashes-Men
Footballers Plan
Early Return
Next Fall
On Tuesday, 24th May, 15 pros-pective
football players for next
year's team met with Coach Hol-strom
and discussed the necessity
of keeping in trim throughout the
summer in order that a stronger
more agile team can quickly be
put into action against next year's
foes.
Realizing that last season's team
was not in shape at the time com-petition
began, the Coach continu-ed
by challenging the gridmen to
prove their worth as a team that
was now to represent a four year
college. Holstrom indicated that
the speed of the backfield must be
increased 20V, and that of the line
Tentative plans are in the mak-ing
to have the footballers arrive
at school a week early next fall
and then go to a camp where they
would go through extensive "body
roughing" exercises — minus the
uniforms. If such plans are car-ried
out, it will certainly indicate
greater results for the team.
Along with the usual conference
teams, the Indians will possibly
add Northland and Augsburg to
'heir list of foes. As a final thought
.or the boys, the coach affirmed
that there was a place for every-
,ine in football and that the boys
',hould honestly find their proper
:dace and then train to carry out
that place in the best possible
way.
Sports Sketch
Our last athlete to introduced
through this column this year is
25 year-old Harold Wertz, who
holds down the shortstop position
on the Indian Baseball team.
Harold is just a small man, stand-ing
5'9", however, he ma kes up for
his lack of height by tipping the
scale at 205.
Harold, who enrolled at Bethel
just this quarter, came to Bethel
from his home town in Alton, Illi-nois:
Before graduating from high-school
in 1940, Harold was active
in all types of highschool sports.
During the war years, alerts
spent three years in the U. S. Air
Force, part of which was spent in
the South Pacific. While in the
service, Harold played on several
baseball teams, the most outstand-ing
being the "Muroc Air Base 9"
of California.
Next fall Harold expects to be
back at Bethel playing football at
the tackle position. He will defi-nitely
prove an asset to the Bethel
11.
When asked how he liked Bethel
Harold replied that he rates the
school very high and likes the
Christian atmosphere not only in
the school but also on the playing
field. Harold plans on attending
Bethel for two more years after
which he will transfer to another
Northwest college to continue in
a Physical Education major.
Athletes Honored
At Banquet Held
At Hasty Tasty
An athletic banquet in honor of
this year's football and basketball
players was held at the Hasty
Tasty Dining Hall on Thursday,
May 12th. Sixty persons attended.
After the menu of pork chops,
mashed potatoes, green peas, and
ice cream, was served, a short pro-gram
Was presented with Coach
Edwards acting as toastmaster.
Two vocal numbers were given
by the "Shower Room Quartet."
Pete Unruh and Kenny Greenman
played a trumpet duet which was
followed by a trumpet solo by Pete
Unruh.
A short reseme of both the foot-ball
and basketball seasons was
given by their respective coaches
Edwards and Holstrom, at which
time each coach expressed his ap-preciation
to the team members
for team cooperation throughout
the season. Mr. W. Malmsten ex-pressed
his thanks and apprecia-tion
to the teams and to the coach-es
and encouraged the expansion
of Bethel's sports program in as-suring
his backing.
Dean Carlson was the main
speaker for the event and he pre-sented
a challenge to the athletes
and also commended the teams
and the coaches for the overall
success of the past seasons. The
banquet was closed with prayer.
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Tennis Team Is
SMJCC Champs.
Golf Team Wins
On Thursday, May 19th, the Bet-hel
tennis team won the SMJCC
tennis singles and doubles champ-ionship
at a Conference meet held
at Rochester. As an entire team,
the netsters went undef eat ed
throughout the season to become
Conference Champions,
Bethel's side-shot artist Bob Mac-
Kinnon, won the singles champion-ship
by defeating each of the three
other singles teams represented at
the . meet, Bethany, Austin, and
Rochester. Roger Berg, who specia-lizes
in power shots, teamed up
with MacKinnon to defeat all their
opponents in the doub:es match.
3oth Berg and MacKinnon were
awarded medals.
The Bethel golf team accompani-ed
the tennis team to Rochester
and engaged in the conference golf
meet. Not being as fortunate as
the tennis team, the local golfers
took third place out of the four
teams represented. Frank Schlader
and Roger Hedberg represented
Bethel in the match.
On Saturday, the 21st of May,
both the tennis and golf teams ac-companied
the baseball team to
Mankato and competed against the
Bethany teams. MacKinnon, R.
Berg, and D. Baltz represented the
netmen, and the golf team consist-ed
of Schlader, C. Anderson, and
Hedberg. Once again the netmen
won every match.
The golfers were equally as for-tunate
as all three honors were
taken. Bethel returned home with
complete victories in baseball, ten-nis,
and golf.
Last Saturday, another local golf
and tennis meet was held with
Bethany.
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The Indians started out the sea-son
by defeating Waldorf 8-5 and
topping Concordia 9-0. Eklof was
the winning pitcher in both of
these games, and in the Concordia
meet, he pitched a no hitter and
struck out 19 opponents. After the
loss to Augsburg, the locallers won
over Northwestern, 8-7, with San-die
getting the credit, and were
also victorious over Waldorf, 5-3,
the winning pitcher being Green-man.
Eklof led the Indians to another
close victory over Northwestern,
9-8, and in their second game with
Concordia, Sandin pitched to an
easy win of 17-1. On a visit to
Mankato, the Bethel nine suppres-sed
Bethany 18-8, and in a local
meet against Luther, Eklof pitched
for a 4-2 win. Last Saturday's vic-tory
over Bethany completed a
successful baseball season for
Bethel.
Credit goes to more than just the
Bethel pitchers. Hitting home runs
throughout the season were
Waage, Greenman, and Bloom.
Along with these home-run hitters
has been left fielder Gaylord and
shortstop Wertz who have had
their share in the double and triple
sackers. The entire team has shar-ed
in getting the hits and knock-ing
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last Saturday 3-2. In their third encounter, the Indians were defeated
by a strong Augsburg nine, 4-2.
Although the local nine completed an undefeated season against
SMJCC teams, they are not entitled to the Conference championship
due to the fact that veteran pitcher Bob Sandin was used against Con-ference
teams. Sandin has already completed the three year maximum
of Conference sports participation. Luther College was awarded Con-ference
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If this column were to have a title, it would no doubt be "Things
I Shall Never Forget About Bethel." I hope that most of you, when
you have finished reading it, will whisper (especially if you're in the
library at the time) a hearty "Amen." Here they are:
The smiles on students' faces as some of the teachers served coffee
to their final classes . . . That last wonderful chapel service . . : The
spring banquets,, expecially the B.W.A., where Myrt Rhenberg summed
up campus life in these words, "At night we talk over the woes of the
day with our roommates, yet remind ourselves that these are the hap-piest
days of our lives" .
How a fellow beat me at pingpong left-handed . . . Sweet rolls
served with hard-boiled eggs for breakfast . . . People who talk in class
so I can't hear the professor when I'm trying to concentrate on writing
J
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THE CLARION
Friday, June 3, 1949
Scholarships
Ericsson Forensic Prize, fifteen dollars, to Lee Kingsley.
Ericsson Forensic Prize, ten dollars, to Harold Christenson.
Bethel Alumni Association Scholarships, twenty-five dollars each, to
Oliver Ohsberg and Dwight Ericsson; thirty-five dollars each, to
Edward Clay and Joy Ingalls.
Bethel Leadership Scholarships, twenty-five dollars each, to Marwin
Lindstedt, Robert Hamlett, and John Dischinger.
Gordh Memorial Scholarship, twenty-five dollars, to Rudolph.Forsman.
Fred Swedberg Memorial Scholarship, twenty-five dollars, giyen by the
Newport Church at Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, to Glen Swanson.
Canadian Scholarship, given by the Women's Commission of the Central
Canada Conference, twenty-five dollars, to Douglas Stimers.
Dr. Wilbert S. Port Scholarship, twenty-five dollars, to David Brown.
Boston Young People's Society Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Harvey
Swanberg:
Signe Erickson, Memorial Scholarship, fifty dollars, given by the War-ren,
Fa. Baptist Church, to -Marjorie Malm.
Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot Scholarship in Memoriam, given by Harold L.
Kerfoot, in memory of his father, Dr. Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, fifty
dollars, to Marilyn Kortum.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Peterson Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Rudolph
Musk a.
Lagerquist Memorial Scholarship, given by the Iowa Young People's
Union, fifty dollars, to Perry Hedberg.
Freda Wall Encouragement Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Beverly Lewis
and Richard Dahlquist.
The Chaplain Earl Widen Memorial Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Del-mar
Dahl.
Klingberg Memorial Scholarship, given by the Historical Society of the
Baptist General Conference of America, fifty ,dollars, to Earl Byleen.
Lake Harriet Baptist Church Scholarship, seventy-five dollars, to Dennis
Carlson.
Esther Lundholm Memorial Scholarship, one hundred dollars, to Eleanor
Johnson.
The Dr. and Mrs. Carl G. Burton Honor Scholarship, one hundred dollars,
to Walter Peterson.
Religious Council Scholarship, thirty-five dollars, to Myrtle Rehnberg.
Lords and Ladies
Win Schultz Cup
The collegiate societies launched
another new first Thursday even-ing,
May 10, in the colleg chapel
when they presented a program of
competition in the fields of -speak-ing,
singing, and writing.
The Lords and Ladies Society
the winner of this first annual Col-legiate
Cup Contest, and was a-warded
a beautiful trophy donat-ed
by Professor and Mrs. Samuel
Schultz.
Musical participants in the con-test
were judged by Mr. Harry
Opel of Minnehaha Academy, and
Forensics were judged by Mr.
Joseph Wenninger of St. Paul
Bible Institute. The judging was
done as objectivly as possible be-cause
of the impartiality of the
outside judges.
Bethel's faculty donned mortar-board
and hood on Sunday after-noon,
May 22, and followed the
prospective graduating classes into
the college chapel for the Bacca-laureate
service.
While Prof. Smith played Men-delssohn's
traditional War March
of the Priests, the graduating
classes took their appointed places
of honor at the front of the chapel.
The main speaker of the occas-ion
was Rev. Eric Lindholm, who
used Moses as the subject for his
message, pointing out his great
patience as _a quality to be sought
after by all even today. Dean Carl-son
opened the . service and Dean
Oinark led in the closing prayer.
Special music NIY as provided by the
Chapel Choir.
ATTENTION!
U. of MINNESOTA SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENTS
The Minnesota Christian Fellowship invites you to worship
with us. Daily prayer meetings, Bible studies, Chapel. For fur-ther
information call GL. 3742
Missy Band
Holds Meet
Missionary Band held its last
meeting of the year on Friday,
May 20. Mrs. Alma Bjork present-ed
the challenge for China through
the medium of colored slides.
"Sighted sub, sank same," was
an expression that came out of the
last war. Missionary Band can
state that phrase and say, "Stated
goal, reached same."
During the testimony period
George Johnson stated that in In-dia
he will be the supervisor of
the Elarrisinga school. This is the
school which the Bethel family is
helping to build with the $3,000 re-ceived
this school year. a letter home . . . The
Morrie's Glories
by Morrie Engstrom
Generally this last issue of the Clarion brings on a lot of reminisc-ing.
But, i.vhy bring in the past? True, it was one of the great years of
Bethel history. But let's look to the future. A good way to do that is
to take another look at the class prophecy and class will as mentioned
at the banquet. Some may have missed out.
Congratulations to the graduating seniors! Hazies Haze prophesied
success and Vernon Anderson ably handled the class will as witnessed
by Trewy Lawson.
Bethel's sports program is mov-ing
forward. Future years will
bring about the new stadium to
be used for the inter-collegiate
sports, it seems that Bob Bronko society competition. Speaking of At Alexis
Lodges Discussed
poured out a speech on Intera- The Alexis society held its last
mural Sports. It was entitled, "Hip meeting of the year on May 17 at
Hip Away." He argued that the S:00 p.m. Arnie Olson was song
modern pastors are going to waist. leader, and June Bruce lead in de-
The pastors are putting on a votions.
front. The pastors program, not the
The official Alexis pianist, Jean
pastor, should be well rounded. We
Sinclair, brought a piano solo. The
should either support a sport or
surprise sermon was a topical,
snort a support. Unquote. After based on the choius, "Do You
that, you can expect next year's Know That You've Been Born
seminary team to win the annual
Again." Surprised song leader
softball game with the college. Arnie Olson was the preacher.
The end of the year came in a
hurry. The Clarion will be taking
a rest for the summer, along with
the students.
Anderson Wins Award
In a National Short Story
Contest sponsored by Young
People for Baptist students,
Betty Anderson of Bethel recei-ved
an honorable mention for
her entry entitled "Peter Barn-aby's
Dream."
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Library Dedicated
Dr. Carl Burton led the brief
library dedication service held
Sunday, May 22 on campus. Dr.
W. F. Widen centered his remarks
on Psalm 127:1, "Except the Lord
build the house, they labor in vain
that build it."
Others on the program included
the Rev. Wyman Malmsten, the
Bethel quartet, and the Rev. Rod-ger
Goodman, who led in the dedi-catory
prayer.
Ice cream, cake, and sandwiches
were served to the more than 500
in attendance. Eating, talking, and
singing, otherwise forbidden in the
home of 24,000 books, closed the
afternoon's activities.
Baccalaureate
Held May 22
The only criticism of the even-ing
by the judges was their dif-ficulty
in making accurate judg-ments
due to the differenc of
selections between the two oups.
The points of the evening ided
up to a total of 260 of which the
Lords and Ladles earned 185. This
includes 25 points earned by the
Athletic games played earlier in
the year.
The Field Day competition that
took place earlier in the day is
entirely independent of this Col-legiate
Cup Contest and the points
are not included in this total.
Winners of any event this year
may not participate in that same
event next year.
Royal Peterson spoke on the sub-ject,
"Are Lodges Christian?" The
concensus of opinion expressed
was that any organization which
does not give Christ preeminence,
cannot be Christian. Lodges do not
give Christ alone the preeminence.
Installation of the new cabinet
was held following the main speak-er.
The new officers are: Douglas
Stimmers, president; William Mur-ray,
vice president; Mrs. Sydney
Wyma, secretary; Donald Gold-smith,
treasurer.
Fire Damages
Girl's Dorm
Residents of the Girls' Dormi-tory
were forced out into the street
by a fire which began in the closet
of room 302 at about midnight on
May 25. Eleanor Johnson, who had
been in another room, entered to
find the curtains in flames and her
roommate, Margaret Frieberg
asleep.
....Marilyn Eastman was the first
to fight the blaze with the fire
extinguisher. Helen Olson aided
her and when Mr. Lawson arrived
he took over until the fire depart-ment
had dome.
The belongings of Margaret Frie-bei•
g and Dorothy Johnson were
completely destroyed by the blaze,
while the other two girls in the
room came out of the ordeal with
only a small loss. No injuries were
sustained in the fire, the cause of
which is still undertermined. Dam-age
is estimated at well over a
thousand dollars.
fellowship around the coffee cup . . . The testi-mony
of Christian teachers . . .
The good singing in chapel . . .
The enlightening discussions of
"World affairs" (?) after the moni-tor
has gone by . How the libr-ary
door always stuck, hindering
us from or study pursuits . . .
The fellowship of prayer . . .
Our last Botany field trip, end-ing
in a weiner roast . . . How Vi
La ven received the answer to her
perennial spring question: "Spring
is sprung; the grass is rizz; I
wonder where the diamonds izz?"..
The way the magazines which we
finally chose to use for research
on our term papers where always
at the bindery . . .
How I learned to find the loop-hole
in every rule, though cam-pused
. . . The contribution which
the collegiate societies have made
to the culture at Bethel ... How a
fe:low 'student was peeking through
a classroom keyhole to see if de-votions
were over before he en-tered,
when President WIngblade
spied him, saying, "You, could see
and hear better if you went in-side".
. .
Ma Olson's cooking . . How
Clara Leggett was composing a
"Symphony of Unfinished Assign-ments"
on the Chapel Choir trip ..
The privilege and fun of writing
this column . . . And, oh yes, a
few other things!
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Top: V. Henry Peterson, Charles C. Germany, George Johnson; Center: Vernon S. Olson, Roy Clinton Dal-ton,
Harold L. Christenson; Bottom: Vernon David Anderson, Robert T. Sandin, David Emmett Tutt.
Retheti Pape4
Vol. XXVIII—No. 14
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota Friday, June 3, 1949
Seventy-seven Graduate Tonight
ROY CLINTON DALTON, Presi-dent,
Seat Pleasant, Md. MAJOR:
History; MINOR: Literature; FU-TURE
PLANS: Teaching; NEXT
YEAR'S PLANS: Univ. of Minn.
Graduate School ; Is. 26:3 "Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on thee, be-cause
he trusteth in thee."
CHARLES C. GERMANY, Vice-president,
Chicago, Ill. MAJOR:
Philosophy; MINOR S: History,
Psychology, FUTURE PL A N S:
Ministry; NEXT YEAR'S PLANS:
,Southern Baptist Seminary, Louis-ville,
Ky. Phil. 3:14 "I press toward
the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus."
GEORGE JOHNSON, Secretary,
Rockford, Ill. MAJOR: English;
MINOR: History; FUTURE
PLANS: Missions; NEXT YEAR'S
PLANS: Univ. of Minn. Ps. 32:8
"I will instruct thee and teach thee
in the way which thou shalt go ; I
will guide thee with mine eye."
V. HENRY PETERSON, Treas-urer,
Eilendale, Mich. MAJOR
History: MINOR S: Philosophy,
Literature; FUTURE PLAN S:
Ministry; NEXT YEAR'S PLANS:
Southern Baptist Seminary, 1,0111:3-
-vine, Ky. Ps. 11:10 "The fear of'
the Lord is the beginning of wis-dom:
a good understanding have
all they that do his command-ments;
his praise endureth for
ever."
ROBERT T. SANDIN, Carney,
Mich. MAJOR: Philosophy; MIN-OR:
History; FUTURE PLANS:
Ministry ; NEXT YEAR'S PLANS:
Univ. of Minn. Graduate School;
Gal. 6:14 "But God - forbid that I
should glory, save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ.
DAVID EMMETT T U T T, St.
Paul, Minn. M A J 0 R: History;
M I N 0 R: Psychology-Philosophy ;
FUTURE PLANS: Missions;
NEXT YEAR'S PLANS: Bethel
Seminary; Phil. 3:10 "That I may
know Him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship
of his sufferings, being made con-formable
unto his death."
HAROLD L. CHRISTENSON,
Muskegon, Mich. MAJOR: H:stoi•y,
M I N 0 Psychology ; FUTU
PLAN S: Ministry or missions;
NEXT YEAR'S PLANS: Bethel
Seminary; Ps. 91:2 "I will say of
the Lord, He is my refuge and my
fortress; my God; in Him will I
trust."
VERNON S. OLSON, Sioux
Falls, S. Dak. MAJOR: History;
MINOR: English-Political Science;
FUTURE PLANS: Ministry;
NEXT YEAR'S PLANS: Bethel
Seminary; John 3:30 . "He must in-crease,
but I must decrease."
VERNON DAVID ANDERSON,
?viidale, Sash, Canada, MAJOR:-
History, Philosophy; FU T U R E
PLANS: Missions; NEXT YEAR'S
PLANS: Missionary to Alaska:
Gal. 2:20 "I am crucified with
Christ: nevertheless 'T live; yet
not I, but Christ liveth in me.
Senior. College Campus Heads
To Be Expanded Are Elected ft631[KOZ
One of the greatest events in Bethel's history will occur tonight
when President Wingblade will present diplomas to almost eighty gradu-ates
at the St. Paul auditorium, theater section at 8:00 p.m.
The commencement speaker will
be Dr. Robert Smith, professor of
philosophy at Dubuque university.
He received his Doctor of Theology
Expansion of the upper division
curriculum is planned for. the
school year 1949-'50. Upper divis-ion
work is being planned for the
fields of sociology, sieech, and re-ligious
education.
In connection with the offerings
of the Sociology Department, the
dean's office announces the ap-pointment
of Mr. David Moberg, an
alumnus of the school, who during
several years past has been doing
graduate work and teaching at the
University of Washington, Seattle.
The work in religious education
will be handled by Miss Esther
Sabel, who returns to the campus
after a year's leave of absence,
having studied at Southwestern
Baptist Seminary.
Mr. Clifford Larson, a doctoral
candidate at the University of
Southern California, has also been
appointed to the Department of Re-ligious
Education. An addition has
been made to the library staff with
the appointment of Rev. David
Guston of New York, who will take
charge of the cataloging depart-ment
of the library.
An additional appointment in the
field of speech is still pending.
Walton Johnson
Seminary Scholar
Walton G. Johnson of Superior,
Wis. brought the valedictory ad-dress
of the seminary this morning
on the theme "A good minister of
Jesus Christ." Emphasizing the
sense in which each Christian is
exhorted to aim at and to attain to
this goal in his own life, he took as
his text I TinI 4:6.
Walton, an ex-serviceman and
graduate of Superior State College,
is the treasurer of the Senior class
and a student pastor at Kelsey,
Minn. During his three years at
Bethel, he has served on the Stud-ent
Council, the Men's Dorm Coun-cil
and the Devotional Committee.
Future plans, though still in-definite,
center around the minis-try
or the mission field.
The new heads of the various
activities follows: Bob Daley, Stu-dent
Council; Gil Anderson, Relig-ious
Council; Bruce Herrstrom,
Clarion.; John Balian, Spire; Ben -
net Asplund, Lads; Jane Johnson,
Lassies; Wally Berke, Lords;
Marianne Ostrom, Ladies; Fay
Seaquist, BWA; Perry Hedberg,
PDG.
Jim Rentz, Men's Dorm Council;
Dorothy J o h n s o n, Girl's Dorm
Council;- Wanda Schrupp, Girls
Chorus; Len Anderson, Swedish
Club; Harvey Swanberg, German
Club; Robert Muska, Spanish Club.
stzpie eaine.4 4711,ta
After nearly giving up hope
of getting the Spire out on time
this year, the editor received
, welcome word last week that
the printer was exerting special
efforts to get the book out by
class day. This meant quite a
bit of driving on the part of
some of the staff members,
over 400 miles to be exact, but
the desired end was obtained-
04/%1NOSIMIKMOMMIMIIVNINP,MINIMNIONT5)
Ed Clay Speaks
For Jr. College
Scheduled to be listed in Who's
Who in the Northwest this coming
year, Edward Arthur Clay was the
valedictorian of the sophomore
class. Already a graduate of North-western
Bible School, Mr. Clay has
been doing both college and semin-ary
work at Bethel the last four
years, with a view toward going
into Christian teaching.
He has been in the ministry for
sometime and is at present serv-ing
a church in Cambridge, Minn.
His home and family are in
Stanchfield.
In "Pressing on to the mark,"
Mr. Clay brought out that there
are always goals to be achieved;
under God we have the will to
achieve them; and willingness to
endure is necessary in order to
achieve goals..
Senior Class
The senior class began the policy
of an annual skip day, as several
other policies, in top style.
On the afternoon of Tuesday,
May 17, they left the campus in
two cars and with a box of food,
not knowing where they were go-ing—
except north.
After having dinner in Duluth
they proceeded up the North Shore
to Twin points where they spent
the night—mostly in riot.
Next morning Vern Anderson
and Chris (the two married men)
acted as cooks while President Dal-ton
closely observed. After break-fast
of fruit juce, fried eggs, bacon,
rolls and toast, coffee, etc., the
group went further north.
Returning south they made sev-eral
stops at points of interest (and
for ice cream for Dalton), , arriving
back at Bethel about five o'clock.
The event was completed by a
stag party at the home of the class
advisor, Gene Johnson on Wednes-day
evening.
Outing Climaxes Year
With the All-School Picnic held
yesterday at Taylor Falls, the
social program of the year came to
a close. The beautiful St. Croix
River formed a perfect backdrop
for the days many activities. Or-ganized
games and just roaming
around made for an enjoyable time
for all.
The devotional part of the outing
came in the evening, when Wally
Peterson led the vesper service.
Leonard Carroll brought the main
message at this time.
Valedictorian
The college senior class valedic-torian,
Roy Clinton Dalton, has
been much in the news this year.
He is president of the Senior class
and also the presiding officer of
the Arconians, the winning col-legiate
society in this year's com-petition.
Roy's address, based on Prov.
23:7, "As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he," was developed
along the three points of thought
in general, thought and conversa-tion
and thought and action.
Just recently engaged, Roy and
Vi Laven have set the date for
their wedding as Aug. 26th, in Des
Moines, Iowa.
Dorm Reservation
Policy Changed
Upper division students better
make the best possible use of their
dorm priority opportunities for the
school year 1949-'50. The Board has
recently voted that effective for
the school year 1950-'51 the priori-ties
will be held by the freshmen
and the sophomores.
The Board's action Is in line with
the practice of most schools in
favoring the needs of younger stud-ents.
Off-campus provisions will be
arranged for upper division stud-ents
who can not be lodged on the
campus.
degree from the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary in Louisville,
Ky.
He is an outstanding speaker,
especially among youth. His topic
will be "In this our day."
The first senior class will be
graduated from the college, taking
with them nine Bachelor of Arts
degrees. There will also be given
fifty-one Associate of Arts degrees,
and two Associate of Religious
Education degrees from the col-lege.
There will be fourteen Bachelor
of Divinity and four Bachelor of
Theology degrees from the semin-ary.
Three persons are candidates
for two diplomas each, thus mak-ing
a total of seventy-seven candid-ates
for graduation.
Holds Skip Day Dalton, Senior
Page 2 THE CLARION Friday, June 3, 1949
•
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By President Wingblade
CON
Federal aid to education is not
the answer to bettering our educa
tional system for two reasons.
First, because federal control of
funds would eventually entail con-trol
of policy.
This arrangement would permit
the possibility of a despotic bur-eaucrat
to dictate educational poli-cies
inimical to our concepts of
democracy.
Secondly, a consequence of cen-tralization
of authority on educa-tional
matters would be to deprive
the citizenery in the localities of
the interest in their school.
Nicholas Murray Butler, late
president of Columbia university
has stated that the school, as well
as the home and church, is inex-tricably
interwoven into the fabric
of society, and therefore, to taken
control of it from the citizens
would be a grave error.
Consolidation of school districts,
institution of governmental eco-nomies,
and the development of a
greater sense of responsibility by
citizens for more equal educational
opportunities is the direction of
action necessary to better our ed-ucational
system.
—John Balian
It is the hope of the Clarion staff that these pages have given you
a wide-angle view of Bethel's school days and the challenges presented
to you as you sojourned here.
Looking over our year in print, the word "deadline" is one to which
we attach mingled sentiments. Behind the scenes we have witnessed
the ever-present last minute rush,
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Editor-In-Chief Robert Hamlett
Assistant Editor & News Editor ....
Charles Germany
Feature Editor Audrey Weldon
Sport Editor Roger Hedberg
Business Manager .. James Rehnberg
Circulation Manager .. Avis Johnson
Reporters: V. Hanson, L. Hendrick-son,
J. Hubbard, Ray Johnson, W.
Lindroth, D. Osterberg, G. Platt, R.
Forsman, J. Balian, D. Brown, M.
Lindstedt, Gene Tupper, Pauline
Pearson, Kurt Janke, M. Sheffler.
Feature Writers: B. Anderson, H.
Bondeson, M. Engstrom, P. Hed-berg,
M. Kortum.
Typists: M. Thompson, Chief; B.
Lindberg, L. Safstrom, V. Larson,
L. Mellbom, J. Widen, Jerry Hasel-blad,
Carol Peterson.
Photographer Harry Palley
Faculty Advisor . V. Elving Anderson
Issued bi-weekly during the school
year except vacations.
Subscription price $1.00 per year
the search for unwritten stories,
and with the advent of spring, the
gradual disappearance of our typ-ists
under the mysterious influence
of spring fever.
Stretching its budget beyond the
limit, the Clarion has given you
fourteen editions with the help of
Student Council funds. But when
the results are all totaled, we can
still say that this has been a great
year.
To our new editor, Bruce Herr-strom,
God's guidance as you take
over the reins of Bethel's paper.
May the Clarion ever grow with
the school the Lord has so richly
blessed. -
-Robert Hamlett,
Editor, 1948-49
PRO
Federal aid is nothing new. Since
before the adoption of our federal
constitution the national gc vern-ment
has given material aid i n the
thrill of larid grants to furthe the
development of our education: sys-tem.
At present federal funds arc be-ing
expended for hot lunch pro-grams
in schools.
A compelling reason for int :eas-ed
federal aid is that states with
larger proportion of school age
children tend to have less than
average financial ability to support'.
their schools.
Mississippi with 281 children for
each 1,000 adults in 1946 had an
income of -$575 per capita. Nevada,
with 181 children per 1,000 adults
had a per capita income of $1,770.
According to the National Educa-tion
Association the more than one
million men rejected by selective
service for educational deficiencies
are attributable to inequalities of
educational opportunities to in-equalities
of educational oppor-tunities.
Federal aid is necessary and de-sirable.
Meditation
As followers of Christ we must
take a true stand for all the teach-ings
of Christ, not only for what
He taught us to believe, but also
for what He taught us to do.
Standing for Christ means stand-ing
with Him, walking with Him,
every day and everywhere, making
Him known to those around us.
To do this we must some times
openly oppose those who deny
Christ whether by false teachings
or 'by shameful living. How is it
done? By "building up yourselves
on your most holy faith," by bold
confession before men, by mutual
exhortation, by suffering for the
truth.
Thus we must "keep the faith"
for our own salvation and comfort,
and we must keep it pure for those
who are following that they too
may live.
—Prof. Swan A. Engwall
DENNIS CARLSON expects to go
to Alaska for some fishing and
also to earn some money.
MARIE SCHULTZ is going to
stay in the dorm this summer. Be-sides
working, she is going to try
to keep HELEN FRANKLIN from
getting lonesome. DON (RED)
SHELDON hopes to do some loaf-ing
besides working and acting as
camp counseller. He'll be around
home all summer and will welcome
any visitors, girls. ROY BORGE-SON
is going to spend his time
trying to learn how to win friends
and influence professors.
Home in Omaha, BUD WAAGE
has a full schedule for the sum-mer.
He's going., to be working,
helping with Bible School and has
some plans for helping to entertain
folks when the convention meets
down there. JONAS HAMMER will
be helping with the farm work
during the day time back home
but is not sure just how he'll spend
his evenings.
DAN NORDGREN will be found
either umpiring ball games or rest-ing
on Phalen beach here in St.
Paul.
There are two things and only two
That cause the potter's "nay,"
A clumsy hand upon the form,
An unresponsive clay.
Our Lord the Perfect Potter is
And Him we cannot blame;
If faulty vessels are produced,
To us must come the shame.
—Baptist Standard
Since this is the last cup of
coffee we'll be sharing together for
a few months, let's just do a little
reminiscing. Remember-
—when we freshmen thought we
weren't being typical college stud-ents
unless we stayed up talking
until the wee hours of the morn-ing?
---the personal invitations a lot
of us received to bathtub parties?
—the struggles with our first
term paper?
- the day we moved the books
into the new library?
—the excitement of Bethel's first
"rush day?"
—the thrills of the chorus trips?
—how the girls dorm flooded
with talk of the coming Sadie Haw-kins
day party, and the familiar
phrase--"but what if he won't go?"
—the fun of playing hosts to
prospective students?
—the long treks over to Mac for
basketball games?
—the scramble for the shelter
of the closets at the approaching
footsteps of the dorm moniter?
—Mantzke's rendition of Jack
and Jill? How can we forget!
—the Homecoro,ing game and the
"determination" of the football
team?
Yes, we could go on and mention
other activities of the year at
Bethel. You can't say on ink and
paper what this year at Bethel has
meant to each of us—spiritually
we have grown, mentally we have
developed and physically we hay(
benefited.
Summing Up
The Blessings
Spiritually speaking, 'Bethelites
will chalk up this year at Bethel
as the most outstanding one in re-cent
times.
A backward glance proves that
Dr. J. E. Orr, whose stirring mes-sages
wrought conviction of sin in
many hearts and were instrumen-tal
in kindling revival fires in the
lives of students and faculty alike,
did not by mere accident stand be-hind
the chapel pulpit that Monday
in April and prayerfully begin his
week of meetings.
The Welsh evangelist faced stud-ents
whose hearts had been under-going,
at God's hands, a unique
preparation for the Word he
preached.
Behind that bright Thursday
when so many students met God
in a new, vital way, stood hours
of earnest prayer in months past.
In January God drew the attention
of many students to chapters 6,
7 and 8 of Romans. Prayer-lives
took on new meaning and the per-iod
of heart-searching began.
Founder's Week brought Drs.
Adams, Ramm and Byus on the
scene, emphasizing the magnifice-nce
of God's Word. Rev. Clyde
Taylor's "You can't be a mission-ary
over there if you won't be a
missionary here" wrote Missionary
Emphasis Week in red letters on
the Bethel calendar%
When Queen Victoria asked
Cecil Rhodes what he was doing in
Africa, he replied, "Building an-other
empire for your majesty."
And when he lay dying he bemoan-ed
the fact that "so little was done
—so much to do."
Tennyson sang of "following
knowledge like a sinking star to
the u t most bounds of human
thought." And Brown i n g held
strongly that "a man's reach
should exceed his grasp—or what's
a heaven for?"
And the greatest of men and the
wisest of men who have gone the
farthest in study and research have
found themselves like little 'child-ren
in the valley of humiliation or
like those gathering pebbles on a
limitless shore.
Dr. Len Broughton of the south-land
was visiting with Thomas
Edison; and, thinking it an oppor-tune
time to learn something, he
asked that great genius what elec-tricity
was. With a twinkle in his
eye Thomas Edison asked Dr.
Broughten if he would promise not
to tell. Upon Dr. Broughton's ac-quiesing,
the wizard of electricity
replied: "We don't know anything
about it."
But there are those who know or
think they do. I was riding on a
fast train between New York and
Bridgeport, and beside me sat a
man from the U. S. Treasury De-partment.
I had just been taken
through the mammoth battleship
North Carolina, and had been tre-mendously
impressed — especially
by the radar in the captain's quar-ters.
When I referred to this in
conversation as being wonderful,
my friend from the Treasury De-partment
replied, "Why no, that
is not wonderful." Then he proce-eded
to tell me exactly how it
worked.
Well, that was fine, but I recall
how John Ruskin lamented the
passing of the sense of wonder in
the hearts of people today. They
know all about the phenomena of
_nature now—or they think they do.
But William Wordsworth sings
sadly of his own loss:
"The rainbow comes and goes,
And lovely is the rose:
The moon doth with delight
Look down when the heavens are
bare;
The stars on frosty nights
Are beautiful and fair;
The sunlight is a glorious birth—
But this I know wherever I go
That there has passed away a
glory from the earth.
But not so, I believe, for the
true child of God. He stands with
amazement, with the. Psalmist,
contemplating the glory of God's
handiwork, and he praises Him
for the mystic wonder of redemp-tion.
The child-like spirit is ever
present. And indeed the greatest
of the great are those "who hum-ble
themselves like this child."
And so at this commencement
season we are looking ahead. We
are still in "the glory of the un-finished."
May we say with Paul,
"I press toward the mark"; and
may we say with Columbus, at
each eventide (in his log book),
"This day we sailed on" — until
the foliage and flowers of a new
shore, shall greet our ken and the
day star arise in our hearts.
May you all have a wonderful
summer—basking in the sunshine
of His love.
Dr. Clarence Nelson of Minneha-ha
Academy followed on his heels
with a Deeper Life Week used of
God to produce a Spiritual thought-fulness
that ripened under Dr.
Orr's ministry into conviction of
sin and simple, but powerful, revi-val.'
Chapel Quotes
"Prayer is the golden river at
whose brink some die of thirst
while others stoop to drink."
—H. Wyman Malmsten
* * *
"It isn't far from the deepest pit
to the highest height if God is with
us."
—President Wingblade
"If we are to realize the promise
of things above, we will have to
put first things first. We will seek
a prayer life—one which carries
us beyond the mere mechanisms of
repeating the Lord's Prayer. ....
—Lloyd Sprecker
This Year's Days of Significance
Prepare Us For Victorious Future
A year ago Dr. Koller spoke to us on "This is the day the Lord
hath made . . ." Tonight Dr. Smith will speak to us on "In this out
day." Our days at Bethel have been varied in activity, but each with
its significant meaning in our lives. We are well aware that we cannot
always live in the days of Orr, Havner, and Byus, for "rear-view living"
is not victorious living.
Politics
Aid to Education
Intellects Reflect
The last issue of the Clarion and with the end of school near, the
current inquiry is, what are you going to do this summer? One can find
about as many different answers as there are people.
DOTTIE JOHNSON and MARIE ANN NELSON are among the many
kids that are going to be teaching Daily Vacation Bible School. Others
are LUCLIE REIK, PAUL DANIELSON, EILEEN SATHER, and DAVE
TUTT to name just a few of them.
FRANK DOTEN is planning on a fishing trip up in northern Minne-sota
and possible Canada before leaving for home. DOROTHY J.
NELSON is going to be church missionary for a church in Escanaba,
Michigan, and FLORENCE NORDSTROM is planning to help with Bible
School work in Brainerd, Minnesota.
Acting as nurse at a summer camp is one of the jobs DELORES
MACKEY has besides teaching Bible School in Bay City, Michigan.
Earnestly Contend
To Christ's followers has been delivered the "faith," i.e. the Oracles
of God—the history, doctrines, precepts of the Church of Christ. This
"faith" represents truths so important for the salvation of man that
Satan wants to destroy their value.
To you and me this is a challenge to responsibility and stewardship.
It is a trustee's duty to keep the deposit intact, to protect it against
corruption and robbery and to hand it on to others unimpaired.
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Friday, June 3, 1949 THE CLARION Page 3
Indians End Season With 9 Wins, 1 Loss
Lads and Lassies Win
Field Events 165-146
A crowd that averaged over 300 watched Bethel students participate
in the first annual Field Day events held on Edwards Field, Thursday,
May 19th. The gala event featured competition in almost every field that
could be witnessed in any major track meet. Competition consisted
of both boys and girls and took the form of rivallry between the Collegi-ate
Societies, the Lords and the Ladies against the Lads and Lassies.
When all the scores were tallied, there was no question that the
Lads and Lassies were victorious over their rivals by a combined score
of 165-146. The Lords won over the Lads, 104-81, and the Lassies over-came
the Ladies, 84-42, which indicates that the Lassies share the great-est
amount of credit for the victors.
High scorers in the Men's Divis-ion
were Roy Johnson and Ronald
Skoog who scored 25 and 24 points
respectively, Bud Dunn, scoring 18
points, C. Anderson 17, Bob Fry-kenberg
14, Bob Daley 13, and Fen
Swanson 12.
Lassie Marilyn Kortum totaled
the highest number of points for
the day by being a victor in al-most
all of the women's events,
netting 48 points.
Other high s c or e r s for the
Womens Division were M. J. Daley,
scoring 23 points, Ruth Erbst 13,
Florence Nordstrom 8, B. Cooper
8, and M. Holm 7.
The following is a list of the 1st
place winners in the various
events.
50 yd. M. Kortum :7.2 Lassie
Event Winners Time Team
Dashes-Men
Footballers Plan
Early Return
Next Fall
On Tuesday, 24th May, 15 pros-pective
football players for next
year's team met with Coach Hol-strom
and discussed the necessity
of keeping in trim throughout the
summer in order that a stronger
more agile team can quickly be
put into action against next year's
foes.
Realizing that last season's team
was not in shape at the time com-petition
began, the Coach continu-ed
by challenging the gridmen to
prove their worth as a team that
was now to represent a four year
college. Holstrom indicated that
the speed of the backfield must be
increased 20V, and that of the line
Tentative plans are in the mak-ing
to have the footballers arrive
at school a week early next fall
and then go to a camp where they
would go through extensive "body
roughing" exercises — minus the
uniforms. If such plans are car-ried
out, it will certainly indicate
greater results for the team.
Along with the usual conference
teams, the Indians will possibly
add Northland and Augsburg to
'heir list of foes. As a final thought
.or the boys, the coach affirmed
that there was a place for every-
,ine in football and that the boys
',hould honestly find their proper
:dace and then train to carry out
that place in the best possible
way.
Sports Sketch
Our last athlete to introduced
through this column this year is
25 year-old Harold Wertz, who
holds down the shortstop position
on the Indian Baseball team.
Harold is just a small man, stand-ing
5'9", however, he ma kes up for
his lack of height by tipping the
scale at 205.
Harold, who enrolled at Bethel
just this quarter, came to Bethel
from his home town in Alton, Illi-nois:
Before graduating from high-school
in 1940, Harold was active
in all types of highschool sports.
During the war years, alerts
spent three years in the U. S. Air
Force, part of which was spent in
the South Pacific. While in the
service, Harold played on several
baseball teams, the most outstand-ing
being the "Muroc Air Base 9"
of California.
Next fall Harold expects to be
back at Bethel playing football at
the tackle position. He will defi-nitely
prove an asset to the Bethel
11.
When asked how he liked Bethel
Harold replied that he rates the
school very high and likes the
Christian atmosphere not only in
the school but also on the playing
field. Harold plans on attending
Bethel for two more years after
which he will transfer to another
Northwest college to continue in
a Physical Education major.
Athletes Honored
At Banquet Held
At Hasty Tasty
An athletic banquet in honor of
this year's football and basketball
players was held at the Hasty
Tasty Dining Hall on Thursday,
May 12th. Sixty persons attended.
After the menu of pork chops,
mashed potatoes, green peas, and
ice cream, was served, a short pro-gram
Was presented with Coach
Edwards acting as toastmaster.
Two vocal numbers were given
by the "Shower Room Quartet."
Pete Unruh and Kenny Greenman
played a trumpet duet which was
followed by a trumpet solo by Pete
Unruh.
A short reseme of both the foot-ball
and basketball seasons was
given by their respective coaches
Edwards and Holstrom, at which
time each coach expressed his ap-preciation
to the team members
for team cooperation throughout
the season. Mr. W. Malmsten ex-pressed
his thanks and apprecia-tion
to the teams and to the coach-es
and encouraged the expansion
of Bethel's sports program in as-suring
his backing.
Dean Carlson was the main
speaker for the event and he pre-sented
a challenge to the athletes
and also commended the teams
and the coaches for the overall
success of the past seasons. The
banquet was closed with prayer.
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Tennis Team Is
SMJCC Champs.
Golf Team Wins
On Thursday, May 19th, the Bet-hel
tennis team won the SMJCC
tennis singles and doubles champ-ionship
at a Conference meet held
at Rochester. As an entire team,
the netsters went undef eat ed
throughout the season to become
Conference Champions,
Bethel's side-shot artist Bob Mac-
Kinnon, won the singles champion-ship
by defeating each of the three
other singles teams represented at
the . meet, Bethany, Austin, and
Rochester. Roger Berg, who specia-lizes
in power shots, teamed up
with MacKinnon to defeat all their
opponents in the doub:es match.
3oth Berg and MacKinnon were
awarded medals.
The Bethel golf team accompani-ed
the tennis team to Rochester
and engaged in the conference golf
meet. Not being as fortunate as
the tennis team, the local golfers
took third place out of the four
teams represented. Frank Schlader
and Roger Hedberg represented
Bethel in the match.
On Saturday, the 21st of May,
both the tennis and golf teams ac-companied
the baseball team to
Mankato and competed against the
Bethany teams. MacKinnon, R.
Berg, and D. Baltz represented the
netmen, and the golf team consist-ed
of Schlader, C. Anderson, and
Hedberg. Once again the netmen
won every match.
The golfers were equally as for-tunate
as all three honors were
taken. Bethel returned home with
complete victories in baseball, ten-nis,
and golf.
Last Saturday, another local golf
and tennis meet was held with
Bethany.
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The Indians started out the sea-son
by defeating Waldorf 8-5 and
topping Concordia 9-0. Eklof was
the winning pitcher in both of
these games, and in the Concordia
meet, he pitched a no hitter and
struck out 19 opponents. After the
loss to Augsburg, the locallers won
over Northwestern, 8-7, with San-die
getting the credit, and were
also victorious over Waldorf, 5-3,
the winning pitcher being Green-man.
Eklof led the Indians to another
close victory over Northwestern,
9-8, and in their second game with
Concordia, Sandin pitched to an
easy win of 17-1. On a visit to
Mankato, the Bethel nine suppres-sed
Bethany 18-8, and in a local
meet against Luther, Eklof pitched
for a 4-2 win. Last Saturday's vic-tory
over Bethany completed a
successful baseball season for
Bethel.
Credit goes to more than just the
Bethel pitchers. Hitting home runs
throughout the season were
Waage, Greenman, and Bloom.
Along with these home-run hitters
has been left fielder Gaylord and
shortstop Wertz who have had
their share in the double and triple
sackers. The entire team has shar-ed
in getting the hits and knock-ing
runs in.
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Men
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Discus Hurl M. Dunn 83'10" Lad
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Women
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Broad Jump R. Erbst 12' Lassie
Ball Throw B. Cooper Lassie
Three Legged Elliason-Kortum
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Archery Kortum Lassie
No Hitter By Ekloi And Hard
Hitting Highlight Season
A victorious season of 9 wins and only 1 loss has been completed
by the Indian diamondmen as they closed the season by defeating Beth-any
last Saturday 3-2. In their third encounter, the Indians were defeated
by a strong Augsburg nine, 4-2.
Although the local nine completed an undefeated season against
SMJCC teams, they are not entitled to the Conference championship
due to the fact that veteran pitcher Bob Sandin was used against Con-ference
teams. Sandin has already completed the three year maximum
of Conference sports participation. Luther College was awarded Con-ference
championship.
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If this column were to have a title, it would no doubt be "Things
I Shall Never Forget About Bethel." I hope that most of you, when
you have finished reading it, will whisper (especially if you're in the
library at the time) a hearty "Amen." Here they are:
The smiles on students' faces as some of the teachers served coffee
to their final classes . . . That last wonderful chapel service . . : The
spring banquets,, expecially the B.W.A., where Myrt Rhenberg summed
up campus life in these words, "At night we talk over the woes of the
day with our roommates, yet remind ourselves that these are the hap-piest
days of our lives" .
How a fellow beat me at pingpong left-handed . . . Sweet rolls
served with hard-boiled eggs for breakfast . . . People who talk in class
so I can't hear the professor when I'm trying to concentrate on writing
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THE CLARION
Friday, June 3, 1949
Scholarships
Ericsson Forensic Prize, fifteen dollars, to Lee Kingsley.
Ericsson Forensic Prize, ten dollars, to Harold Christenson.
Bethel Alumni Association Scholarships, twenty-five dollars each, to
Oliver Ohsberg and Dwight Ericsson; thirty-five dollars each, to
Edward Clay and Joy Ingalls.
Bethel Leadership Scholarships, twenty-five dollars each, to Marwin
Lindstedt, Robert Hamlett, and John Dischinger.
Gordh Memorial Scholarship, twenty-five dollars, to Rudolph.Forsman.
Fred Swedberg Memorial Scholarship, twenty-five dollars, giyen by the
Newport Church at Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, to Glen Swanson.
Canadian Scholarship, given by the Women's Commission of the Central
Canada Conference, twenty-five dollars, to Douglas Stimers.
Dr. Wilbert S. Port Scholarship, twenty-five dollars, to David Brown.
Boston Young People's Society Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Harvey
Swanberg:
Signe Erickson, Memorial Scholarship, fifty dollars, given by the War-ren,
Fa. Baptist Church, to -Marjorie Malm.
Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot Scholarship in Memoriam, given by Harold L.
Kerfoot, in memory of his father, Dr. Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, fifty
dollars, to Marilyn Kortum.
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold W. Peterson Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Rudolph
Musk a.
Lagerquist Memorial Scholarship, given by the Iowa Young People's
Union, fifty dollars, to Perry Hedberg.
Freda Wall Encouragement Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Beverly Lewis
and Richard Dahlquist.
The Chaplain Earl Widen Memorial Scholarship, fifty dollars, to Del-mar
Dahl.
Klingberg Memorial Scholarship, given by the Historical Society of the
Baptist General Conference of America, fifty ,dollars, to Earl Byleen.
Lake Harriet Baptist Church Scholarship, seventy-five dollars, to Dennis
Carlson.
Esther Lundholm Memorial Scholarship, one hundred dollars, to Eleanor
Johnson.
The Dr. and Mrs. Carl G. Burton Honor Scholarship, one hundred dollars,
to Walter Peterson.
Religious Council Scholarship, thirty-five dollars, to Myrtle Rehnberg.
Lords and Ladies
Win Schultz Cup
The collegiate societies launched
another new first Thursday even-ing,
May 10, in the colleg chapel
when they presented a program of
competition in the fields of -speak-ing,
singing, and writing.
The Lords and Ladies Society
the winner of this first annual Col-legiate
Cup Contest, and was a-warded
a beautiful trophy donat-ed
by Professor and Mrs. Samuel
Schultz.
Musical participants in the con-test
were judged by Mr. Harry
Opel of Minnehaha Academy, and
Forensics were judged by Mr.
Joseph Wenninger of St. Paul
Bible Institute. The judging was
done as objectivly as possible be-cause
of the impartiality of the
outside judges.
Bethel's faculty donned mortar-board
and hood on Sunday after-noon,
May 22, and followed the
prospective graduating classes into
the college chapel for the Bacca-laureate
service.
While Prof. Smith played Men-delssohn's
traditional War March
of the Priests, the graduating
classes took their appointed places
of honor at the front of the chapel.
The main speaker of the occas-ion
was Rev. Eric Lindholm, who
used Moses as the subject for his
message, pointing out his great
patience as _a quality to be sought
after by all even today. Dean Carl-son
opened the . service and Dean
Oinark led in the closing prayer.
Special music NIY as provided by the
Chapel Choir.
ATTENTION!
U. of MINNESOTA SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENTS
The Minnesota Christian Fellowship invites you to worship
with us. Daily prayer meetings, Bible studies, Chapel. For fur-ther
information call GL. 3742
Missy Band
Holds Meet
Missionary Band held its last
meeting of the year on Friday,
May 20. Mrs. Alma Bjork present-ed
the challenge for China through
the medium of colored slides.
"Sighted sub, sank same," was
an expression that came out of the
last war. Missionary Band can
state that phrase and say, "Stated
goal, reached same."
During the testimony period
George Johnson stated that in In-dia
he will be the supervisor of
the Elarrisinga school. This is the
school which the Bethel family is
helping to build with the $3,000 re-ceived
this school year. a letter home . . . The
Morrie's Glories
by Morrie Engstrom
Generally this last issue of the Clarion brings on a lot of reminisc-ing.
But, i.vhy bring in the past? True, it was one of the great years of
Bethel history. But let's look to the future. A good way to do that is
to take another look at the class prophecy and class will as mentioned
at the banquet. Some may have missed out.
Congratulations to the graduating seniors! Hazies Haze prophesied
success and Vernon Anderson ably handled the class will as witnessed
by Trewy Lawson.
Bethel's sports program is mov-ing
forward. Future years will
bring about the new stadium to
be used for the inter-collegiate
sports, it seems that Bob Bronko society competition. Speaking of At Alexis
Lodges Discussed
poured out a speech on Intera- The Alexis society held its last
mural Sports. It was entitled, "Hip meeting of the year on May 17 at
Hip Away." He argued that the S:00 p.m. Arnie Olson was song
modern pastors are going to waist. leader, and June Bruce lead in de-
The pastors are putting on a votions.
front. The pastors program, not the
The official Alexis pianist, Jean
pastor, should be well rounded. We
Sinclair, brought a piano solo. The
should either support a sport or
surprise sermon was a topical,
snort a support. Unquote. After based on the choius, "Do You
that, you can expect next year's Know That You've Been Born
seminary team to win the annual
Again." Surprised song leader
softball game with the college. Arnie Olson was the preacher.
The end of the year came in a
hurry. The Clarion will be taking
a rest for the summer, along with
the students.
Anderson Wins Award
In a National Short Story
Contest sponsored by Young
People for Baptist students,
Betty Anderson of Bethel recei-ved
an honorable mention for
her entry entitled "Peter Barn-aby's
Dream."
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Library Dedicated
Dr. Carl Burton led the brief
library dedication service held
Sunday, May 22 on campus. Dr.
W. F. Widen centered his remarks
on Psalm 127:1, "Except the Lord
build the house, they labor in vain
that build it."
Others on the program included
the Rev. Wyman Malmsten, the
Bethel quartet, and the Rev. Rod-ger
Goodman, who led in the dedi-catory
prayer.
Ice cream, cake, and sandwiches
were served to the more than 500
in attendance. Eating, talking, and
singing, otherwise forbidden in the
home of 24,000 books, closed the
afternoon's activities.
Baccalaureate
Held May 22
The only criticism of the even-ing
by the judges was their dif-ficulty
in making accurate judg-ments
due to the differenc of
selections between the two oups.
The points of the evening ided
up to a total of 260 of which the
Lords and Ladles earned 185. This
includes 25 points earned by the
Athletic games played earlier in
the year.
The Field Day competition that
took place earlier in the day is
entirely independent of this Col-legiate
Cup Contest and the points
are not included in this total.
Winners of any event this year
may not participate in that same
event next year.
Royal Peterson spoke on the sub-ject,
"Are Lodges Christian?" The
concensus of opinion expressed
was that any organization which
does not give Christ preeminence,
cannot be Christian. Lodges do not
give Christ alone the preeminence.
Installation of the new cabinet
was held following the main speak-er.
The new officers are: Douglas
Stimmers, president; William Mur-ray,
vice president; Mrs. Sydney
Wyma, secretary; Donald Gold-smith,
treasurer.
Fire Damages
Girl's Dorm
Residents of the Girls' Dormi-tory
were forced out into the street
by a fire which began in the closet
of room 302 at about midnight on
May 25. Eleanor Johnson, who had
been in another room, entered to
find the curtains in flames and her
roommate, Margaret Frieberg
asleep.
....Marilyn Eastman was the first
to fight the blaze with the fire
extinguisher. Helen Olson aided
her and when Mr. Lawson arrived
he took over until the fire depart-ment
had dome.
The belongings of Margaret Frie-bei•
g and Dorothy Johnson were
completely destroyed by the blaze,
while the other two girls in the
room came out of the ordeal with
only a small loss. No injuries were
sustained in the fire, the cause of
which is still undertermined. Dam-age
is estimated at well over a
thousand dollars.
fellowship around the coffee cup . . . The testi-mony
of Christian teachers . . .
The good singing in chapel . . .
The enlightening discussions of
"World affairs" (?) after the moni-tor
has gone by . How the libr-ary
door always stuck, hindering
us from or study pursuits . . .
The fellowship of prayer . . .
Our last Botany field trip, end-ing
in a weiner roast . . . How Vi
La ven received the answer to her
perennial spring question: "Spring
is sprung; the grass is rizz; I
wonder where the diamonds izz?"..
The way the magazines which we
finally chose to use for research
on our term papers where always
at the bindery . . .
How I learned to find the loop-hole
in every rule, though cam-pused
. . . The contribution which
the collegiate societies have made
to the culture at Bethel ... How a
fe:low 'student was peeking through
a classroom keyhole to see if de-votions
were over before he en-tered,
when President WIngblade
spied him, saying, "You, could see
and hear better if you went in-side".
. .
Ma Olson's cooking . . How
Clara Leggett was composing a
"Symphony of Unfinished Assign-ments"
on the Chapel Choir trip ..
The privilege and fun of writing
this column . . . And, oh yes, a
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